The field of Malayalam writers include the following people, from various disciplines and periods.
Art criticism Mani Madhava Chakyar (1899–1990)
Poetry
Arnos Paathiri (1681–1732) Cherusseri Namboothiri Irayimman Thampi Kattakayam Cherian Mappillai (1859–1936) Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran K. C. Kesava Pillai (1868–1914) Kunchan Nambiar (1705–1770) Kumaran Asan (1873–1924) Kutty Kunju Thankachi Niranam poets Poonthanam Namboothiri Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan Ulloor S Parameswara Iyer (1877–1949) Unnayi Warrier Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878–1958)
Modern Romantics
Bodheswaran Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (1911–1948) Edappalli Raghavan Pillai (1909–1936) M.P.Appan Pala Narayanan Nair Pallathu Raman (1892–1950) P. Kunhiraman Nair (1906–1978) Vennikkulam Gopala Kurup
Other modern poets
Akkitham Attoor Ravi Varma A. Ayyappan Ayyappa Panicker Balachandran Chullikkadu Chandiroor Divakaran Edasseri G. Shankara Kurup (1900–1978) Kadammanitta Kadathanat Madhavi Amma Kureepuzha Sreekumar Lalitha Lenin V Madhusoodanan Nair M. Govindan Mary John Thottam Nellikkal Muraleedharan N. V. Krishna Warrier Olappamanna O. N. V. Kurup Punaloor Balan Satchidanandan Sugathakumari Thirunalloor Karunakaran Vayalar Ramavarma Vinayachandran Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri Vyloppilli (1911–1985)
Post-modern poets
Anvar Ali A. Ayyappan A. C. Sreehari Kalpatta Narayanan Kureepuzha Sreekumar Kavitha Balakrishnan Manoj Kuroor Mohanakrishnan Kaladi M.S. Banesh Rafeeq Ahamed Rajesh Chithira P. P. Ramachandran T. P. Rajeevan Sathish Kalathil Satyan Madakkara S. Joseph Syam Sudhakar T. P. Rajeevan V. M. Girija Veerankutty K Shareef
Fiction
Early period
Ambadi Narayana Poduval (1871–1936) Appu Nedungadi (1863–1933) C. Kunhirama Menon (M. R. K. C.) (1882–1939) C. S. Gopala Panicker (1872–1940) C. V. Raman Pillai (1858–1922) Moorkoth Kumaran (1874–1941) O. Chandhu Menon (1847–1900) Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar (1860–1914)
Modern
Anand Ashitha Basheer (1908–1994) Benyamin Chandramathi C. Radhakrishnan C. V. Kunhiraman E. Harikumar Geetha Hiranyan George Joseph K. George Onakkur Hassan Thikkodi Joy J. Kaimaparamban Kakkanadan (1935–2011) Karur (1898–1974) Kovilan K. Saraswathi Amma (1919–1974) K. Surendran Lalithambika Antharjanam (1909–1987) Madhavikkutti (Kamala Das) Malayatoor Ramakrishnan (1927–1997) M. Mukundan M. P. Narayana Pillai M. T. Vasudevan Nair Nandanar N. S. Madhavan N. P. Mohammed O. V. Vijayan (1930–2005) P. Padmarajan (1945–1991) Parappurath (K.E. Mathai) Pattathuvila P. F. Mathews P. K. Balakrishnan (1926–1991) Ponjikkara Rafi Ponkunnam Varkey (1908–2004) Kesava Dev (1904–1983) P. M. Taj (1956–1990) P. R. Shyamala Priya A. S. Sachidanandan Shahina EK Sreekumari Ramachandran (born 1950) S. K. Pottekkatt (1913–1982) Subhash Chandran T. D. Ramakrishnan Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1914–1999) T. Padmanabhan T. V. Kochubava Uroob (1915–1979) Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair V. J. James V. K. N. (1932–2004) V. P. Sivakumar Zacharia
Post-modern fiction
Anoop Sasikumar G. R. Indugopan Pradeep S. Hareesh Socrates K. Valath
Playwrights
C. J. Thomas C. L. Jose C. N. Sreekantan Nair G. Sankara Pillai Kainikkara Kumara Pillai Kainikkara Padmanabha Pillai S. L. Puram Sadanandan Thikkodiyan Thoppil Bhasi T. N. Gopinathan Nair
Children's literature
P. Narendranath Shebaly Sippy Pallippuram Sumangala
Essayists
Annie Thayyil C. N. Ahmad Moulavi K. M. George Puthezhath Raman Menon R. Narayana Panickar Sanjayan S. Guptan Nair Sabeena Rafi Sooranad Kunjan Pillai Sukumar Azhikode T. M. Chummar V. V. K. Valath
Literary criticism
K.Damodaran (1912–1976) Kesari Balakrishna Pillai (1889–1960) K. M. Daniel (1920–1988) K. P. Appan (1936–2008) Kuttikrishna Marar (1900–1973) Kuttipuzha Krishna Pillai M. Achuthan (1930–2017) M. Krishnan Nair M. K. Sanu M. Leelavathy M. N. Vijayan (1930–2007) M. P. Paul (1904–1952) M.R. Chandrasekharan Mundasseri (1901–1977) Narendra Prasad (1946–2003) P. K. Narayana Pillai S. Guptan Nair (1919–2006) S. Rajasekharan Sukumar Azhikode (1926–2012) V. C. Sreejan P. K. Rajasekharan
Film criticism
C. S. Venkiteswaran Kozhikodan Vijayakrishnan
Translation
Leela Devi M. K. Kumaran M. N. Sathyaardhi Nileena Abraham N. K. Damodaran V. Unnikrishnan Nair
Asokakumar Edasseri P. J. J. Antony
Others
Hermann Gundert Jyesthadevan Kottarathil Sankunni Krishna Chaithanya
See also Malayalam literature
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